In my post searching for missing parts, I talked about how the NTSB put out word that they were looking for parts from TWA 841 and that they eventually found many of the missing parts in a farmer's field in Saginaw, Michigan. Well, they didn't have Google Earth back in 1979. But with a little …
The flight engineer controversy
In my previous post, Did anybody see what happened? I mentioned the fact that the Rakowskys were sitting in first class. I also talked briefly about the controversy surrounding Gary Banks, the flight engineer, and whether or not he had left the cockpit. The reason why this was such an important …
Did anybody see what happened?
In my previous post, The story of the CVR and the man with blinders, I talked about how the crew was excluded from the investigation. Three expert witnesses and no one wants to talk to them. But the crew weren't the only witnesses. There were also 80 passengers and 4 cabin attendants. Surely they …
The story of the CVR and the man with blinders
If there was one thing that caused the investigation of TWA 841 to go off the rails, it was the discovery that there were only nine minutes of recorded audio on the thirty minute CVR tape. This was discovered within days of the incident. A bulk erase tone was present on the remaining 21 minutes of …
Continue Reading about The story of the CVR and the man with blinders
Almost like being there
The photo gallery below consists of images taken during the shooting of the documentary The Plane That Fell From The Sky. The images are courtesy of passenger Roger Peterson. These images were taken three years after the incident. They are the closest thing you can get to having had a photographer …
Surviving the dive
The clip below is from my interview with TWA Flight 841 passenger Peter Fehr. In this short clip, Peter describes what the spiral dive of TWA 841 was like from the perspective of a passenger. …